{"id":3324293,"url":"https://alion.io/job/roche-technical-team-lead-applied-agentic-ai-systems","title":"Technical Team Lead – Applied & Agentic AI Systems","company":{"id":13531,"name":"Roche","domain":"roche.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/roche","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":86,"open_postings":224,"ghost_share":0.04,"stale_share":0.612,"repost_share":0.098,"time_to_fill_p50_days":19,"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Hyderabad, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":31000,"max_usd":81000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":35},"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon Neptune","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Bedrock","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"GraphRAG","optional":false},{"name":"LangChain","optional":false},{"name":"LangGraph","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"Multi-Agent Systems","optional":false},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false},{"name":"OpenSearch","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-27T09:17:02Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-27","last_verified_at":"2026-10-31T04:25:19Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.\nThe Position\nWe are looking for a Technical Team Lead (Engineering Manager) who exhibits a player-coach and servant leadership mentality to lead a highly autonomous, multidisciplinary team of AI software developers. You will act as the defining engineering voice serving as the bridge between ambitious business goals and the technical reality of building scalable, ethical, and high-impact AI solutions within a highly regulated healthcare environment. You will collaborate with AI Product Managers, consultants, subject matter experts, platforms leadership and engineers, Roche Digital Technology (Roche IT) and business stakeholders to define, build and operate various kinds of AI solutions, driven by generative AI, agentic and classical Machine Learning.\nIn this role, you must successfully balance being on the manager's- and maker's-schedule. You will likely step away from daily feature coding to guide system architecture and perform rigorous code reviews, while simultaneously providing empathetic people management necessary to cultivate a high-performing engineering squad.\nDescription of the area\nAt Roche Digital Technology, we are advancing the boundaries of Applied AI. The Applied AI Engineering Team focuses on architecting, building, and operating high-value AI solutions to solve complex business challenges in healthcare.\nIn the 2026 tech landscape, we operate in small agile teams (e.g. ~8 members) powered by advanced coding agents (like Claude Code) to develop and ship solutions faster than ever before (through applying Agentic SDLC). This team will not only build end-to-end solutions, but also support \"buy and integrate\" projects while gathering technical feedback to support the ongoing development of RDT AI Platforms.\nJob Responsibilities\nTeam Management\nManage multi-disciplinary team members with different skill sets from your own, injecting stability into the squad within a complex organizational environment.\nCultivate healthy team dynamics, collaboration, psychological safety, and open communication while maintaining a sustainable pace of work.\nSet clear focus and priorities for the team's delivery work, managing sprint goals in partnership with Product Managers while actively removing roadblocks. Engage in continuous product discovery in partnership with Product Managers and UX leads. Be willing and able to step into a Product Owner role when necessary. \nExplain the \"WHY\" and provide necessary context to your team members.\nCapability Development & Resource Management:\nEncourage team members to self-define and drive their career journey and actively enable development opportunities that align with it.\nManage hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, compensation calibration, succession planning, handling underperformance, and conflict resolution.\nManage the team's budget, including headcount, software/infrastructure operational costs, and vendor contracts, ensuring financial responsibility.\nTechnical Direction & Architecture:\nEnable technical decision-making and design of robust, resilient, and highly available systems that integrate generative AI, multi-agent frameworks, RAG/GraphRAG pipelines, state machines, classical ML, and enterprise data ecosystems.\nEstablish robust patterns for utilizing LLMs, multimodal foundation models, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers/clients, and vector, graph and relational databases.\nEnsure newly developed AI applications fit within the context of RDT and Business functions, strictly following architectural patterns, standards, and data strategies established across the functions.\nIdentify areas of technical debt and perform pragmatic cost/benefit analyses for resolving this debt, ensuring optimal cloud resource and model inference cost-efficiency.\nEstablish and enforce rigorous enterprise standards for code, systems development, identity management, and authentication mechanisms across the team.\nAgentic SDLC & Code Quality:\nEnsure the team effectively leverages agentic Software Development Lifecycle workflows and tools daily (e.g., Claude Code, autonomous agents) to safely accelerate development and automated testing cycles.\nAct as the technical standards keeper; perform or enable effective, rigorous code reviews for both human-written and AI-generated code to maintain strict enterprise software engineering standards.\nCompliance & Regulatory Alignment:\nOversee compliance-by-design strategies for AI deployments, ensuring engineering deliverables are audit-ready and aligned with GxP compliance and Computerized System Validation (CSV)/Software Assurance (CSA) standards.\nEnforce strict data integrity controls (ALCOA+) to preserve validated infrastructure states.\nQualifications & Experience\nEducation: Bachelor or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology, Science, or a related field.\nLeadership Experience: 3+ years of experience in team leadership and people leadership in an agile product delivery environment, with a proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams.\nTechnical Experience: 7+ years of experience working in AI software development teams, with at least 5 years as a hands-on engineer or architect designing cloud-native solutions.\nRegulated Domain Experience: Proven experience operating within a highly regulated environment (pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or clinical healthcare preferred) delivering validated applications.\nExhibits servant and creative leadership (VACC) behavior.\nPossesses deep active listening and mentoring/coaching skills.\nDemonstrates a leadership presence, strong business acumen, ability to navigate ambiguity, and manage complexity.\nIs a decisive leader, comfortable making decisions in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.\nBrings an enterprise mindset that can break down silos, focusing on delivery through collaboration across organizational boundaries.\nTechnical Skills\nAI & Orchestration Frameworks: Deep practical expertise in multi-agent system design, state machine logic, and orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph.\nClassical Machine Learning: strong hands-on background in building applications driven by classical (pre-generative) Machine Learning and MLOps.\nCore Programming: Production-grade mastery in advanced Python for backend/AI workloads and TypeScript for modern frontend interfaces and generative AI and classical ML UX/UI. Strong foundational understanding of modern full-stack development environments.\nData & Cloud Platforms: Strong architectural understanding of enterprise data platforms like Snowflake, vector databases (e.g., AWS OpenSearch), and graph databases (e.g., AWS Neptune).\nCloud Engineering & DevOps: High proficiency overseeing AWS cloud architecture (including serverless workloads, Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, etc.), managing fully automated CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).\nAI Observability: Experience defining monitoring, logging, and telemetry strategies to track model drift, API/MCP health, resource utilization, and anomaly identification.\n\nAdditional Qualifications\nExcels in communicating in English highly effectively and clearly, at the level of: C1+.\nStrong stakeholder management skills to influence non-technical Senior Stakeholders on complex architectural designs.\nBe passionate about AI, staying up-to-date with the latest developments in LLMs, GenAI, agentic, classical ML, cloud computing, and software architectures.\nBe team-oriented, proactive, and collaborative , with the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.\nBe an excellent problem solver and analytical thinker, detail-oriented and highly organized.\nBe willing to learn and expand their skill set in an environment where roles are fluid and multidisciplinary.\nLocated in Hyderabad, India, with working hours structured to capture the 'golden hours' of overlap with Central European Time (typically running through the IST evening).\nWho we are\nA healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.\nLet’s build a healthier future, together.\nRoche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.","description_format":"text","description_chars":9043,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Upper-Intermediate (B2)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Diagnostic Tests & IVD","Biologics & Biosimilars","Oncology Therapeutics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-27T09:17:02Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":62,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.621,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":19,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/roche-technical-team-lead-applied-agentic-ai-systems","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/roche-technical-team-lead-applied-agentic-ai-systems.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-31T06:08:45Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8949,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":13531},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=13531"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Froche-technical-team-lead-applied-agentic-ai-systems"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Froche-technical-team-lead-applied-agentic-ai-systems"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Froche-technical-team-lead-applied-agentic-ai-systems"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/roche-technical-team-lead-applied-agentic-ai-systems\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Froche-technical-team-lead-applied-agentic-ai-systems"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3324293}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"roche.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3324293},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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